Gaza conflict: UK to deploy NHS team to treat injured as 20,000 march through London

20,000 people gathered for a rally in Hyde Park while similar demonstrations were held across the globe (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

The UK has decided to send a team of NHS medical experts to Gaza as rising anti-Israeli sentiment saw 20,000 people march through London in the wake of a three-day ceasefire.

The Department for International Development elected to send doctors, nurses, surgeons and paramedics to the region, which is desperately short of medical supplies and practitioners.

Meanwhile, thousands of people protesting against Israeli military action gathered in the capital and around the globe, including 50,000 in Cape Town, South Africa, and thousands more in Paris – despite a ban imposed by French authorities.

The demonstration, organised by the Stop the War coalition and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, saw participants march towards a rally in Hyde Park.

‘The massacre of children is outrageous,’ protester Philip McCowen, 59, told the BBC.

Both Cameron and Obama have expression concern about the renewed fighting (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

‘The bombing of hospitals is outrageous.’

Yiftah Curiel, speaking on behalf of the Israeli embassy in London said he had a ‘problem with people expressing support for a terror organisation’.

‘It is the key obstacle to the prosperity of Gaza,’ he said.

David Cameron and Barack Obama meanwhile expressed ‘serious concern’ about the renewed hostilities.

The latest UN figures show that 1,935 Palestinians have been killed – 452 of whom have been children – while 66 Israelis and one Thai national have been killed.